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[kpete]

President Bush has taken ill with a stomach ailment


President Bush taken ill at G8
By staff and agencies
Last Updated: 9:18am BST 08/06/2007




President Bush has taken ill with a stomach ailment
President George W Bush has taken ill on the final day of a Group of Eight summit and is resting in his room, a White House aide said.

Dan Bartlett, a White House counsellor said Mr Bush had a stomach ailment which he described as "not serious".

"We're not sure if it was something he ate last night or this morning," he said.

The President hopes to return to meetings at the summit later in the day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/08/wbush108.xml

Bluebear has more at:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1067725&mesg_id=1067725

[spanone]

1. When I drank, I often woke up 'ILL'

[Steven_S]

2. Hope he shits his brains out...

oh - wait..

[Eurobabe]

3. Don't worry it's only a Radler (half beer/half sprite)

Is Laura still staying at the Hay-Adams?

[peekaloo]

15. so a beer spritz gave DimWit the shitz?

:o

[PA Democrat]

4. He is a national embarrassment.

It's either a hangover or an excuse to play hooky from any further meetings. It doesn't look like too many other world leaders (with the exception of German Chancellor Merkel) are all that happy to see him. I'll bet that the leader of any other country suffers a 10 point drop in their approval ratings among their citizens every time they are photographed with Bush.

[PATRICK]

5. Hops flavored Kool-Aid

n/t

[monmouth]

6. FReepers say it's Buckler Beer....05% alcohol. They're praying for him...lol.

[yardwork]

13. Yeah right. Even if it is low-alcohol beer, it adds up when you drink ten of them.

[smoogatz]

21. Not really.

Most people process out that little bit of alcohol as they go; fake beer makes you pee as much as regular beer. Assuming your liver functions normally, you could drink them all night and get pretty much zero buzz. Trust me, I've tried.

[NMDemDist2]

23. that's the problem though, most alcoholic's livers *don't* function normally

:shrug:

[Warren Stupidity]

32. Y'all are diving off a cliff here.

Lots of non-drinkers and ex-drinkers drink wimpy beer. Your orange juice is likely to have as much alcohol as this stuff.

[NMDemDist2]

40. no wonder I rarely drink OJ, but can you site a link for that? I googled

it and one guy on a rootbeer forum cited a university drug study, but it didn't come up with an OJ link.

where did you get that?

[Warren Stupidity]

45. All fruit and grain beverages ferment.

Did you ever make fruit wine or keep apple cider too long? It is a natural process. Any high sugar fruit juice will ferment. Of course tossing in yeast will speed the process up, but it will manage all on its own. Ever have semi solid orange juice hanging out in the 'fridge?

[yardwork]

31. Alcoholics in recovery are advised not to drink any alcohol at all.

"Getting a buzz" isn't a reliable indicator of how much alcohol is in one's body or of how hard one's liver is having to work to metabolize it. The bottom line is that alcoholics (which the chimp has admitted to being) can't handle any amount of alcohol. I know. I am one myself.

[WritersBlock]

16. I'm praying for him, too. Praying for him to spend a long time at the Hague

right before the transfer to his new digs at Leavenworth.



A girl can dream.

[smoogatz]

22. Sure it is. In Germany, nobody drinks real beer.

Among my friends who've had to learn not to drink, it's nearly a universal truth that near-beer or fake beer is pretty much step one on the road back to being a drunk. It's pretty much common knowledge that Bush has been off the wagon since the "pretzel" incident--to everyone but Freepers, anyway.

[BlackVelvet04]

28. Most recovering alcoholics will not even use mouthwash

with alcohol in it much less have a near beer.

[yardwork]

34. That's right. I avoid alcohol in desserts, even. I don't eat chocolate covered cherries.

[NMDemDist2]

41. buy the cheap chocolate covered cherries. they don't have any liquor in them

we love em too, especially at Xmas time. but have to give away any 'nice' ones cuz they're full of booze.

the $3.99 ones at Walgreens are just pure sugar baby!! :bounce:

[yardwork]

43. Thanks for the tip!

Yum!

[Warren Stupidity]

30. That is "less than 0.05 % alcohol". not 5%

And your bladder would burst before you got remotely buzzed on that stuff.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Boy, in that photo he looks like a long time boozer

waking up from a bender and taking some "hair of the dog".

[whistle]

8. Looks like he is drinking a glass of British ale....uhmmm

....I wonder just how many of those he has had on this trip?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

46. Newcastle Brown

looks kind of dark?

[whistle]

51. Alcohol is alcohol even British Ales by the glass can pack a punch

...if they are pounded down with impunity. I hope that cameraman who got that shot follows Bush around like a hawk and gets as many photos as he can. We need to see Bush red-eyed and blubbery and weaving and stumbling like a drunken sailor. Then post those photos at every WalMart, WalGreens, public building and military barracks in the country. This asshole needs to be exposed for the phony sick drunk that he is.

[partylessinOhio]

9. * was feeling no pain here:

Never before has a "president" displayed such disregard for the office.

IMPEACH!

[Olney Blue]

10. Oh. My. God.

Not my president.

[DemSoccerMom]

39. About that photo . . .

was he merely laughing w/ his head thrown back, or was he sleeping/passed out?

[bahrbearian]

11. How sick will he be when he sees this Article and Pic

Oh never mind he doesn't read , but maybe Karl will let him see the Pic.

[porphyrian]

12. It's just a lager...

Don't they prescribe that for everything over there?

[Ilsa]

14. The Enablers are lying for him* again.

They said Pickles had a similiar stomach ailment a few days ago, but it had not affected her schedule. Sounds to me like they conveniently make up stories to cover for his drinking now.

Bartlett had to take back the food comment so as not to offend the host and chefs. Bush should nom him for a diplomat. :sarcasm:

Yeah, I bet the Bucklers beer bottle was a prop. I bet he was inbibing the real thing. Or maybe he drank so much low alcohol beer (Bucklers) that he got snockered.

[peekaloo]

17. ll Douche has the Trotsky's?

mixin' ideologies again......:dunce:

[hedgehog]

18. We need some experts on cirrhosis on this thread.

Assuming his liver was almost cooked, what would a little alcohol do?

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. You know who must be getting paid millions?

The guy in the White House whose job it is to empty the O'Douls bottles and refill them with Busch beer, then pops the cap back on.

[janetle]

49. Nothing would surprise me

[malaise]

20. This one is even better

http://beergeek.stores.yahoo.net/nobe.html


Add link.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

24. Holy shit!

I have never seen a near beer with that kind of head -- even right out of the bottle. Anyone familiar with the bottle lable that is in front of him?

[cui bono]

25. link:

http://beergeek.stores.yahoo.net/nonalbu12ho.html

[Warren Stupidity]

29. Buckler: not bad for wimpy beer.

The head is from bad pouring technique.

[Bluebear]

33. Look how the bottle is "staged" for the camera, too. nt

[janetle]

47. Exactly

[RevCheesehead]

26. That one needs it's own post.

The question I have is, has he ever been ON the wagon??

[RedEarth]

27. Great pic........... no question bush is boozing again............

.....however, I guess it could be non-alcoholic beer.....the way he acts, I doubt if he's ever quit.

[LizW]

37. That one needs some thought bubbles:

Bush: "SSCHLLUUUUUURRPPPPP!!!"

Merkle: (silently) "Oh, dear...don't look....oh...EWWWWW!"

[JHB]

38. This page has a picture of a Buckler bottle...

http://www.oldcastlepub.com/beerlist.html
(scroll down about halfway)

Seems to be a match.

[malaise]

42. Thanks. Note that it's

a Low Alcohol Beer brewed by Heineken Brouwerijen B.V. in Netherlands.

Bushie is drinking again.

[Renew Deal]

35. That's bad.

It makes me sad to even see him mess with his sobriety. That's very bad.

[redacted]

36. OMG!

[Nikki Stone1]

44. Some editor at the Telegraph has a sense of humor?

:evilgrin:

[KamaAina]

48. So I guess we know what "ales" him

:evilgrin:

[renate]

50. kpete, I love you

Look what time you posted this... even if you live on the East Coast, that is still freakin' early.

You work so hard for us.... :cry:

:loveya:

[kpete]

54. thankyou renate

I have always been an early bird - I guess I must like worms...kp

[SalmonChantedEvening]

52. Hops and Barley do not a breakfast cereal make n/t

[calimary]

53. What was that? Long Island Ice Tea?

Beer? Scotch?

Did he throw up on anybody like his dad did?